- Mary Ashton Livermore
(12/19/1820 – 05/23/1905)
US social reformer
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"Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts.' probably lost."
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"You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth."
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"Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it."
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"In our judgement of homosexuality—a symptom of degeneracy which could destroy our race—we must return to the guiding Nordic principle: extermination of the degenerates."
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"To me, apples are fruit—to Cezanne they were mountains!"
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| "You can't fix it. You can't make it go away. I don't know what you're going to do about it, but I know what I'm going to do about it. I'm just going to walk away from it. Maybe a small part of it will die if I'm not around feeding it anymore." |  |
"Love is like playing checkers. You have to know which man to move."
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| "Jolson's funeral was widely attended by those who wanted to make sure." |  |
| "You've just got one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it." |  |
"Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy."
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